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DENVER -- KitchenAid, the homewares giant that manufactures items for American households, is apologizing this morning after a tweet reportedly coming from its official account insulting President Barack Obama during the presidential debate.
CNN reports the company tweeted, "Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president," during the debate, a move for which it is now apologizing.
"Deepest apologies for an irresponsible tweet that is in no way a representation of the brand's opinion," a later tweet read in part.
According to CNN, the original post would have been in reference to a comment President Barack Obama made during the debate as he spoke about the importance of programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
"You know, my grandmother - some of you know - helped to raise me," Obama said. My grandfather died a while back. My grandmother died three days before I was elected president. And she was fiercely independent. She worked her way up, only had a high school education, started as a secretary, ended up being the vice president of a local bank. And she ended up living alone by choice."
"And the reason she could be independent was because of Social Security and Medicare," he continued.
fatdaddygamer 1 year, 6 months ago
well, I'll never buy a kitchenware product again. the cowards.
fatdaddygamer 1 year, 6 months ago
well, I will never buy a kitchenaid product again. the cowards.
billstrickland 1 year, 6 months ago
well, I will never read an anonymous comment again. the cowards.
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ilovealbany 1 year, 6 months ago
I don't understand how that is being independent...if you are dependent on social security and medicare.
doingwhatisright 1 year, 6 months ago
No apology needed...I 'll still buy your products...
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GA Safety - Priority No. 1
GA Safety, specifically for recreational flying, is EAAs top priority. Recently, the NTSB placed GA safety on its most wanted list, initiating a program to help prevent accidents and save lives. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2011 provided a venue for the two organizations to meet and discuss ways to work together to achieve common goals.
NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman and board member Earl F. Weener arrived at AirVenture in a GA airplane piloted by Weener. This marked the first visit to AirVenture for Hersman, while Weener has attended many times.
Shortly after their arrival, Hersman and Weener met with the presidents of EAA, AOPA, NBAA, NATA, GAMA, and HAI and discussed how they could work together to improve GA safety. The General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) provides the best channel through which all of the associations collective efforts can be funneled. EAA and NTSB participate in the GAJSC, the Safety Analysis Team under it, and the newly formed Loss of Control Working Group.
While walking the flightline, Hersman met Andy Werback, EAA 699040, and had an impromptu conversation about GA safety. Andy recounted his personal experience building a Lancair Legacy, using EAAs technical counselor program and chapter members knowledge to help when he needed it. Andy spoke about his transition training program in which his CFI provided make and model training in another Lancair, flew the first few hours on Andys Legacy, and once he felt Andys skills and aircraft were sound, gave Andy the green light to finish the phase one test flying of his aircraft. By using proven effective programs and processes, Andys build and transition were safe and provided a great example of how the process can and should work.
Chairman Hersman, who was recently confirmed to another two year term, left AirVenture 2011 with a better sense of what makes up GA and what EAA is doing to improve its safety.
Type Clubs Talk Transition Training
Participation is key - Safety studies routinely show that pilots who are actively engaged in type clubs suffer fewer accidents than pilots who are not involved with such clubs. With that knowledge in mind, along with a desire to improve safety among all GA operators, leaders from aircraft type clubs and pilot associations met at AirVenture 2011 to discuss forming a coalition to improve GA safety. One objective of the coalition is to reach pilots who are not yet members of an organization familiar with their aircraft and get them the information they need to fly in a safe, effective manner. At the meeting, attendees discussed a push strategy to reach those pilots: When a pilot registers his or her aircraft, the coalition would send the registrant type-specific safety information, including how to obtain transition training.
Familiarity Breeds Safety
For many type-certificated GA aircraft, training can be found easily at a local FBO. For experimental amateur-built, warbird, and some specific makes and models of GA aircraft, however, that training can be difficult to obtain. This coalition will leverage its knowledge and resources to better prepare GA pilots for flight risks associated with known accident hot spots. Risk will be reduced through focused training, outreach, and cultural change.
If you or someone you know is thinking about purchasing an aircraft in which they have little or no experience, encourage them to seek out a type club or owners group that has specific make and model transition training.
Administrator Understands Importance of AirVenture
Shortly before AirVentures opening day, it didnt look promising for the annual Meet the Administrator session. Congress had not passed a continuing resolution to fund key parts of the FAA, which led to furloughs of 4,000 FAA employees and the idling of thousands of workers on airport projects. Administrator Randy Babbitt had to severely cut back the FAAs presence at Oshkosh, the agencys best event to meet aviators and key constituencies to get things done.
The administrator eventually made his case about the importance of FAAs top leadership being here. The resulting one-day trip preserved the annual administrators forum and visits by FAAs top leadership staff.
This is where the FAA becomes personified to many of younot a Web link or a button on a phone, but real people working with real aviators, Babbitt said during his forum.
In early August, Congress approved a continuing resolution, allowing FAA personnel and contractors to return to work. This resolution is set to expire on September 16, 2011, and EAA continues to urge Congress to finalize the FAA reauthorization bill that would prevent the necessity of continuing resolutions or furloughs in the near future.
Stronger Together
There is little doubt that aviation, as a whole, is facing troubled times. Everything from the future of piston engine fuels to the political implications from the current federal administration that GA is a community of fat cats who should pay more for what we do is harming aviation. It does not matter if you are a U.S. company that firmly believes in the value of a corporate aircraft or a private U.S. citizen who is passionately pursuing your dreams, GA is under fire from a multitude of sources.
There is a silver lining in this storm cloud. Aviation is seeing a gathering of forces unlike anything most of us have ever seen in this industry. Nothing brings people together like adversity, and it is becoming apparent that the alphabet groupsEAA, AOPA, GAMA, NBAA, NATA, NASAO, HAI, and othersare stronger together. The CEOs of the associations now communicate with each other on a regular basis. During AirVenture 2011, a CEO panel was held, and each organizations leader talked about the various hot spots in aviation and how they are being combated with joint efforts amongst the associations. More often than not, you now see efforts with multiple aviation associations joining together and supporting one another.
This is especially good news in the world of aviation advocacy. The efforts of organizations such as AOPA and EAA to strategically align and, in many cases, combine our efforts will bring strength and capability to aviation that was unheard of in the past. Significant joint projects are underway, with more to be revealed later this year that will move the needle in aviation.
Nobody wants aviation to endure these difficult times. I can say with certainty that all the above-mentioned organizations, and others, want to make certain that aviation weathers the storm and finds prosperous, fertile ground for growth once again. I know that the aviation community and its respective associations shall emerge into good times stronger.
Government Relations Briefings
Read more about out what else is happening in the world of EAA's government relations.
EAA's Government Relations department works to preserve the freedom of flight and reduce the regulatory barriers affecting affordability and access to EAA members participation in aviation. Protecting the freedom to fly is the foundation on which all of the organizations advocacy initiatives are built. EAA fights to preserve this freedom by providing clear solutions and practical alternatives backed by hard work and dedication. EAAs 55-year history of success is a testament to that philosophy.

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Long-term Treatment Study of MRA for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) From Study MRA213JP
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This is an open-label, extension, Phase III study to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of MRA in patients with RA who participated in Study MRA213JP.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Drug: MRA (Tocilizumab)
Phase 3
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Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
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|An Open-label, Extension, Phase III Study to Evaluate the Long-term Safety and Efficacy of MRA in Patients With RA Who Participated in Study MRA213JP
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Efficacy:the frequency of amelioration of at least 20% in terms of the ACR criteria [ Time Frame: throughout study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Frequency and degree (severity and seriousness) of adverse events and adverse drug reactions [ Time Frame: throughout study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Pharmacokinetics of the serum MRA concentration [ Time Frame: 0W,4W,8W,12W,LOBS ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Efficacy:time courses of DAS28, frequencies of amelioration of at least 20%, 50%, and 70% in terms of the ACR criteria, each item in the ACR core set [ Time Frame: 0W,4W,8W,12W,LOBS ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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- Either MRA or placebo was administered at least 3 times in the preceding study, and there were confirmed to be no problems with respect to safety.
- In the case of Patients whose participation in the current study was judged to be inappropriate because of problems in the preceding study with respect to safety, these Patients must have been in the methotrexate dose group in the preceding study.
Exclusion criteria
- Administered drugs such as infliximab, etanercept, and leflunomide within 12 weeks before administration of the study drug
- Evaluated as belonging to Steinbrocker's class IV within 4 weeks before administration of the study drug
- Have not been registered by 3 months after the full code-breaking of the preceding study
- Were administered plasma exchange therapy between initiation of the preceding study and the initial administration in the current study
- Treated surgically (except for local surgery) within 4 weeks before administration of the study drug
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|Study First Received:
|September 2, 2005
|Last Updated:
|December 21, 2009
|Health Authority:
|Japan: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
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The RFPB now serves as an independent advisor to the Secretary of Defense on all reserve and guard matters to include advice and recommendations on strategies, policies and practices to improve and enhance the capabilities, efficiency and effectiveness of the reserve components.
In addition to chairing the Reserve Forces Policy Board, Mr. Punaro is Chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association, the largest industry group with over 1,600 member companies. He is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He serves on the non-profit boards of the Atlantic Council, the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs Board of Visitors, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.
He is chief executive officer of the Punaro Group, LLC, a Washington-based consulting firm he founded in 2010 specializing in the national security field. He was previously an executive vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) from 1997 to 2010.
Beginning in January 2005, Mr. Punaro chaired the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves established by Congress. The Commission submitted three reports and completed their work in April, 2008 with most of their 117 recommendations largely adopted by DoD and the Congress. In September 2010, with the Center for New American Security Studies (CNAS), he co-chaired a review which issued a "Report Card" covering the implementation of the Commission's recommendations. He served as a founding member of the Secretary of Defense Business Board starting in 2002 and completed his current term in January 2014.
A retired U.S. Marine Corps Major General, he was assigned as the Director of the Marine Corps Reserve from May 2001 to October 2003, and as Deputy Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command (Mobilization) from August 2000 to May 2001. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the Commanding General of the 4th Marine Division headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served on the Reserve Forces Policy Board as a member from 1997 to 2003. His previous assignments as a general officer were Commanding General, Marine Corps Mobilization Command, Kansas City, Missouri, and Deputy Commander, Marine Forces Reserve. He served on active duty as an Infantry Platoon Commander in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star for valor and Purple Heart. In December 1990, he was mobilized for Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia. In December 1993, he completed a tour of extended active duty as Commander of Joint Task Force Provide Promise (Forward) in the former Yugoslavia. He was mobilized for a third time in May 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Please, please don't waste your time. I'm not joking. – Honestly, that was one of the most awkward experiences I have ever put myself through. I came there with a good friend of mine looking to play some pool. Well, first off, they have 4 tables. Yep, 4 tables and they hail as a billiards joint. Okay fine, we decided to wait it out. So we go to the bar. The bartenders are the type of people that you just want to pop in the face. Please note, I am not a violent individual. The huge techno-video wall really complimented the quality country music piping out of this "posh" bar speakers. While bartenders fought with patrons and patrons pleaded to simply get their first cocktail I sat there in amazement. The vibe - STRAIGHT WEIRD! As I glanced around everyone was waiting for a table and looking just as uncomfortable as we were in doing so. The bottom line, someone spent a fair amount of money upgrading the appearance of this bar and simultaneously conjuring up an experience that induced acid reflux.
Oh... and we left with half full drinks and not a game of pool played. Cheers.
A well-dressed crowd gathers to play casual games of pool while munching on finger foods and sipping top-shelf liquors. – The Scene
This is not an old-fashioned pool hall. Eight purple pool tables stand in this large, high-ceilinged upstairs bar. Customers pay hourly fees to shoot a few games, munch on finger foods and sip one of 15 different kinds of vodka or 34 single-malt scotches.
The Draw
Pizza is on special from 5pm to 7pm for the after-work crowd. Expect to see plenty of suits early in the evening and casual yuppie attire later. The games are casual--no leagues play here. It's the right place to go if you're not exactly a gifted player, but want to do something besides sit on a bar stool all night. The cost of an hour of pool ranges in price depending on the day and time. There's also shuffleboard.
Good Times - Bad Drinks – My husband and I had a great time at the Blue Que. The atmosphere was pleasant and the staff were very friendly. The mixed drinks have to be some of the worst I have ever had. The margarita's tasted like sour lemons, the midori sour was extremely sweet and the other drink tasted like cough syrup. This was a Thursday night so maybe it was just a bad night for the bartender but they certainly did not know how to mix drinks.
Would be a great spot if... – ...they didn't have such poor service. The atmosphere and drink selection was great, but the staff is always so rude that my girlfriends and I take our business elsewhere.
GOOD DRINKS-BAD SERVICE! – The title says it all. The drinks are great, the atmosphere is fun, but the barenders and cocktail waitresses are so rude! After being told that my drink order is "a pain in the ass (2 gin & tonics?)," I will never come back to this place!
3 – This place is very popular with the yuppie wannaBe'. So if you like that kind of scene and a complete sausage fest then this is your place.
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There is no need to reinvent the wheel. It might be easier to buy one like the one you have in the picture rather than to try to build one.
I'm looking for a creative plumber who can help me out with a little project.
I currently have this...
And I would like to turn it into this
The main differences are I'd like to have the first picture sitting on my kitchen floor and I'd like the feed to come from line similar to that of an ice maker.
Your solution would need to:
A) Allow me to drill a hole into the water tank and insert the feed
B) Have some type of quick-release/shut-off valve so I could unhook and clean as needed
C) Automatically fill the tank when the water got low but not overfill due to pressure in the line
I'm not crafty, so if you're recommending I build this myself I'll need specific part names. I have zero plumbing experience and would rather just pay someone a few bucks to solve this problem so if there's any of you out there who might be interested just let me know.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel. It might be easier to buy one like the one you have in the picture rather than to try to build one.
Not only easier, but a whole lot less expensive. You won't hire a plumber for "a few bucks", and I'm pretty sure a decent pet store will have something ready to go.
You would have to drill a hole in the side of the bowl, then install a "waterer" float valve. Your problem is that the hole would probably have to be below the water level of the bowl and the valve does not usually seal "water tight". You would also need enough room inside the chamber for the float to rise high enough to give the proper water level. There would be many ways to make the 'quick connection' depending on your exact situation. The real question, however, is HOW does the water get high enough to come out of that "slot"? You are probably going to pay a plumber at least $200.00, plus parts, if you can find one willing to try to drill the hole without damaging or destroying the bowl.
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Depending on how simple your existing unit is, it probably depends on the vacuum created in the water bottle to not overfill (kind of like the 5 gallon tank top water coolers do). Is it the looks of the unit you have now that you like? Would the second one you show connected to the garden hose not work? you can easily get garden hose to NPT pipe adapters(http://www.mcmaster.com/#garden-hose-adapters/=orhe0m) and then a fitting that adapts NPT to compression fittings as you call ice maker line. Quick disconnect garden hose connectors are readily available too. http://www.mcmaster.com/#garden-hose-adapters/=orhgew
That would be your simplest, cheapest and safest bet IMHO. You could screw the connecters together in minutes. A float valve on the other tank could work if you drill into the bottle, but even the smallest air leak around that fitting, the dish would overfill quick. And if say Fido knocks over the dish, you would have full water pressure open onto the floor and would send him swimming for higher ground. I think modifying your existing one would be quite risky. The adapters on the garden hose one would be much safer.
Okay, this is thinking way outside the box, but have you checked out stuff in gardening websites? They should have automatic plant watering systems that could be adapted. (??) They sense when the probe is dry.
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Years ago I did something like this using an automatic watering unit from a farm supply house. The problem is float valves do not always work right and may stick on or leak. In a toilet they just run and the over flow goes down the drain. I would never use a unit like that agian with out a floor drain close. We ended up with water on the floor fairly often.
Now we just use an auto water unit with a larger tank.
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Risk on-risk off trades have been all the rage in currency markets, but this strategist says the fiscal cliff may change that.
Ever since the financial crisis, currency markets have been more or less trading on the ups and downs in investors' risk appetite - also known as risk on-risk off, or RORO. David Bloom, global head of FX strategy at HSBC, thinks the pattern may not last.
The problem, Bloom says, is the fiscal cliff. Right now, the dollar is seen as the ultimate safe-haven currency, the go-to currency play when risk appetite is low. But even if the fiscal cliff - a wave of spending cuts and tax hikes due to be implemented at the end of the year - would tamp down risk appetite, it's hard to see how that would goose the greenback.
"In any rational world, a US-specific crisis would be bad news for the USD," Bloom wrote in a note to clients. "However, people are now wedded to the view that bad news = buy USD. The cognitive dissonance generated by the US-specific nature of the fiscal cliff is likely to lead people to simply buy the USD as usual – at least as a knee-jerk reaction. Clearly we think that this would a misguided reaction to the news."
That doesn't mean you should just sell the dollar as the fiscal cliff approaches, though.
Bloom points out that this "buy on bad news" approach can be powerful. When Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. sovereign debt, the dollar actually rose.
"The US was downgraded because S&P felt that US debt was no longer of a high enough standard to meet their once-highly-regarded AAA standard. Yet, in reaction to the news, the USD strengthened and Treasuries were aggressively bid up. In other words, the US downgrade saw the market actually buy the exact assets it was worried about," he says.
In the case of the fiscal cliff, Bloom says, cognitive dissonance will likely prevail again: "We have no doubt that a "risk-off" situation driven by the fiscal cliff will see the market buying the USD. One would have to be either brave or foolish to stand in front of this dissonant train."
But once the dollar rises in that scenario, Bloom says, start selling.
"Eventually the market will be unable to cling to this bizarre view and the USD will have to fall back down again."
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great spot for a drink – big city is a las olas classic... a locals place that is also known for catering to the tourist crowd, but nonetheless a great place for a couple of beers with friends. they have ur typical selection on tap and the ambiance is right on.
Fun atmosphere/ Great food – Came here after work last week. Sat at a table by the bar. Good selection of beer. Had the flat bread and was impressed. It is reasonable and better than the average rest./bar in Las Olas. I'd recommend
Spectacular – First off let me put to rest the previous reviews that are on this site. I don't know if management has changed or the chef or what...but the place is specatacular! As a chef I have not had a better prepared meal in years. The crab cake was perfectly cooked with a sauce that complimented it very well. The filet and the seabass were equally impressive. I had an Argetinian Malbec to go with my meal and the wine selection is perfect for the cuisine. The ambience was nice, very clean , and decorated with a nice modern touch. I would encourage everyone to try this place as I will DEFINITELY return next time I am in town. If Big City Tavern needs any help promoting their establishment they can contact me and I will be glad to help.
User review by catsmeaow – The food is good and so is the service. I would like to see more international wine selections, mostly California.
Upscale restaurant and wine bar serves variety of New American lunch and dinner fare to sophisticated Las Olas crowd. – In Short
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and Erastus Macfarlane for a license to r u n a Pool Hall within the City. Referred to Committee. Feb. 9 , 1914. . . Communication of Commercial Club of Cedar City was referred to Committee on Streets and Sidewalks to see that large cottonwood trees and other unsightly trees on Main Street be cut down within 30 days. Uriah T . Jones, representing a committee from the Parent's Class, petitioned the Council to see that the boys do not congregate and blockade the sidewalk in front of the "Cozy Corner", and also restrict the hours of said establishment on Sundays. Matter referred to Committee on Streets and Sidewalks. On motion Councilman Highee. Carl Burkholder and Edward Houchen were allowed the belts and climbers (belonging to the City) for replacing the b u r n t out lamps on the poles for a period of one year. Contract to be drawn UP. Iron County Fair Committee petitioned the Council for a lease upon City p r o p e r t y , east of the Cemetery, for Fair purposes, and he allowed to make the same permanent. Referred to Cemetery Committee. March 3, 1914.. .Special session with State Health Inspector. Frank Jordan, who informed the council of unsanitary conditions. He recommended passing a law requiring people to clean their corralls every ten days during the summer, and to construct o r remodel their outhouses so that they a r e fly proof and sanitary. Also, to require them to adopt the d r y earth system in their outhouses. Recommended that the Council appoint a d a y , right away, for 'Cleanup Day , ' and encourage everybody to haul out the manure and t r a s h from lnstructions were to be their lots before the flies come. published in the local newspaper. March 5. 1914.. .Lorenzo Creele, Indian Agent, was leased Third East S t r e e t , north of Coal Creek; Second East S t r e e t , north of Coal Creek; and First North S t r e e t , east from Coal Creek to Block 42--for camp and agricultural purposes, for five years or longer. Justice Palmer stated, in his opinion, trees in front of premises belonged to the City and could be removed by City, but residents should be given the f i r s t right to remove the trees. Residents on Main Street were to he instructed by t h e Marshal to remove the t r e e s in front of their homes within 60 days, or the City w i l l proceed to remove the large and AU refuse and t r a s h from the City unsightly t r e e s itself. was required to be hauled out to the point of the hill. northeast of the corner of the Cemetery, which point has been designated by the City as the dumping ground for all t r a s h and refuse. (now, the City Golf Course) ZOO
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Washington's tug of war over the federal budget has many wonders, but the biggest one of all must be the lengths to which politicians and pundits will go to deprive Granny and Grandpa of $30 a month.
That's the amount by which benefits for the average Social Security retiree would be reduced by 2023 under a provision in President Obama's new budget. It might not sound like much to the president or fans of the proposal in both parties and the Washington commentariat. For the retiree trying to stretch an average monthly check of about $1,200 to cover housing, healthcare and every other necessity under the sun, it looms rather larger.
The idea that Social Security benefits should be on the table in budget talks arises from the fear that America's national debt, driven by its budget deficit, is growing to the point that it will push us over the economic brink.
Here's the tragedy of it: That fear is based on junk economics.
Many economists knew that already, but it has been underscored by the exposure of material errors in a widely circulated academic paper that provided an intellectual foundation for the idea that the federal debt was getting so far out of control that only dramatic cuts in spending could save us from the abyss.
The paper, published in 2010 by economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, postulated that economic growth falls off sharply once a country's debt exceeds 90% of its gross domestic product. The finding packed a lot of punch at the time because U.S. debt was approaching that range.
It would be inaccurate to say the paper inspired the deficit panic and austerity politics that we've lived with ever since, but it certainly provided deficit hawks with what seemed to be empirical data to support their alarm.
But as documented by a graduate student and two professors at the University of Massachusetts, the Rogoff/Reinhart paper was riddled with mistakes. These were a spreadsheet coding error that left five countries out of their sample of 20 out of their calculations, "unconventional weighting" of their country statistics in a way that bolstered their thesis, and the "selective omissions" of several countries and years from their overall analysis.
In replying to the critique, Rogoff and Reinhart copped to the first error, defended the second as a reasonable weighting, and indignantly denied that they had deliberately selected their data; the reason for the omissions was that the data were unavailable when they wrote the paper, they said.
They also observed that the UMass team agreed with their finding that higher debt is associated with lower economic growth. But that glosses over two leading criticisms of their paper — that it suggested that economic growth all but falls off a cliff at the 90% threshold, and that it didn't consider that high debt might be caused by low growth, rather than the other way around.
The latter point is especially important, because it points to very different policy prescriptions depending on which way the causal merry-go-round spins. Those citing Rogoff and Reinhart have argued invariably that it means America must cut its debt load urgently.
That's a big edifice to erect on a debunked economic paper. But it brings us back to Obama's budget, which seems preoccupied with deficit reduction — he alluded to the concept 17 times in his April 10 budget message.
Front and center among his proposed deficit-reduction tools were changes to Medicare and Social Security. The former involved increasing premiums paid by higher-income seniors. The centerpiece of his Social Security rollback was a change in the index for cost-of-living increases from the traditional consumer price index to the "chained" CPI.
If you've been following the Washington debate, you know that the uncanny popularity of the chained CPI as a deficit nostrum lies in its supposed "accuracy." The idea is that it incorporates certain changes people make in their purchasing behavior when prices rise — when apples go up in price, they buy bananas instead. Therefore it typically yields a lower inflation number.
What you may not know is that these behavioral changes are very hard to track and the conclusions applied by the index-makers often conjectural. (What if you like apples but not bananas?) Experts also debate whether consumers respond to absolute price changes or relative price changes — if hamburger is cheaper than steak but its price rises faster, people may actually buy more steak. And under many circumstances people may not have a choice: If gasoline goes up, you may not have the option to take the bus to work instead.
One consideration noted by the Congressional Budget Office but missing from the political debate over the chained CPI is the complexity of applying it to benefits. That's because the index is revised twice over the two years following its initial release. The initial estimate comes out at the same time as the traditional CPI each month. But because it's based on spending data collected over time, the full year's chained CPI is subject to an interim adjustment the following February and a final adjustment a year after that.
Lawmakers would have to choose which version of the chained CPI to use. But as the CBO pointed out, because of the technicality in the way the chained index is calculated, that choice could lead to some Social Security recipients getting more advantageous inflation adjustments than others.
The allure that the chained CPI holds for Washington politicians and pundits has always been a mite mysterious. From 2014 through 2023, the change would reduce benefits by about $127 billion compared with the traditional CPI, CBO official Jeffrey Kling told a House subcommittee last week. That's less than three-tenths of 1% of all projected Social Security benefits in that time span.
Since this cut makes little sense from the standpoint of math or even deficit-cutting — the aggregate reductions build up to something significant only over decades — the maneuver is commonly cast as a move in a political chess game, an essential compromise for Obama to extract tax increases from the GOP in a "grand bargain."
Now that we know the drive for a grand bargain is based on an economic concept with no empirical foundation, its absurdity stands in high relief. No one disagrees that sometimes (though not always) it's better to have less debt than more; the issue for post-crash fiscal policymakers has always been one of urgency and magnitude.
You implement changes like the chained CPI if you fear that you're about to fall into the abyss. In that case, of course, you also do things that will matter more, like cutting a bloated defense budget and raising taxes on the wealthy. The fact that the chained CPI ended up as a symbol of Obama's willingness to make a deal shows just how far budget policy in Washington has become untethered from reality.
It's rare for bad research, bad economics and bad politics to come together to produce something so just plain bad. And it's sad that Obama proposed a budget that undermined his credibility with the progressives who should be providing him with his firmest support, and even gave some Republicans the latitude to attack him from the left, as someone willing to balance his budget on the backs of the elderly. Who would have thought that Barack Obama, of all people, would be going for the title of Democratic president least likely to be mistaken for Franklin Roosevelt?
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February, as you may know, is National Heart Month. Heart disease is the number one killer of women. More than all the cancer's combined, including breast cancer. But heart disease can strike at any age.
Meet Olivia Goodwin. This busy toddler doesn't let anything stand in her way. Full of energy and life. To look at her you'd never know it's a miracle she's even here. Olivia has endured more in the first 72 hours of her life than most of us will in an entire lifetime. Her mother, Marisa Goodwin remembers her delivery day.
"The doctors said don't have lunch, you're having this baby today. she was in trouble."
The doctors made the startling discovery Olivia had a heart defect. She would arrive three weeks early, with complete heart block. Essentially an electrical problem with her tiny heart.
"We knew at that point she would prob need a pacemaker at some point in her life. What we didn't know is if it would be immediately, when she's 10, 20,50"
At just three days old, the smallest pacemaker doctors could find was installed into her tiny chest.
Olivia would spend the first month of her life in the NICU at UVa. Medical Center. Marisa and her husband Kurt educated themselves, quickly becoming advocates for their first born.
"You go through that first those moments where you cry, you wonder why, you question, this isn't fair, you're angry and then ok, we're done with that let's just tackle the problem let's handle this."
Three years later, Olivia's scar is a visual reminder of her special heart. But nothing is holding her back from living a normal life with a bright future.
"She'll have some restrictions. No contact sports, nothing that will impact her chest & that's okay. We swim, we might do music. We're not going to over protect her even thought it's easy to want to do that because you fear for her," Goodwin says.
Some might call it irony or divine intervention. Years ago the Goodwins donated to the Americna Heart Association, never imagining they were paying it forward.
"Having a second child we were involved in this research directly funded by the Heart Association to prevent my second baby from having what Olivia has, and she was born, no issues whatsoever."
Marisa adds, Olivia's pacemaker doesn't define her but it's definitely made her who she is.
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Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
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Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed
Leaves generally palmately compound; stipules conspicuous, partly fused to petiole; leaflets generally 3, sometimes 59, ± serrate or dentate
Inflorescence: raceme (often umbel-like), head, or spike, axillary or terminal, generally many-flowered, often involucred, generally peduncled; flowers bracted or not
Flower generally spreading to erect, often becoming reflexed; corolla generally purple to pale lavender, sometimes yellow, persistent after flower; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit generally indehiscent, but often breaking, short, plump, generally included in corolla; base often stalk-like
Seeds 16
Etymology: (Latin: 3 leaves)
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Inflorescence head-like, 0.51.5 cm wide, 3many-flowered; involucre present or vestigial
Flower: calyx 2.55 mm, glabrous; corolla 49 mm, pink-purple, white-tipped, banner inflated in fruit
Fruit: stalk-like base short to 0; style generally persistent
Seeds 15
Chromosomes: 2n=16
Ecology: Common. Salt marshes, grasslands, coastal woodlands, openings, wet meadows, ditches, roadsides, other disturbed places, open alkaline or spring-moist, heavy soils
Elevation: < 900 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, n&c High Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, South Coast, Channel Islands, Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: w N.America, S.America
Varieties depauperatum, truncatum predominant.
Leaf: leaflet tip often truncate, toothed
Inflorescence: involucre bracts ± separate, 22.5 mm, margins ± membranous
Flower: calyx 2.53 mm; corolla 4.57.5 mm
Fruit ± = style; stalk-like base 0.51 mm
Seeds 12
Ecology: Grassy flats, disturbed slopes, openings in woodland
Elevation: < 800 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, South Coast, Channel Islands, Peninsular Ranges
Synonyms: T. amplectens Torr. & A. Gray var. truncatum (Greene) Jeps
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El Comercio Seedbed Maltin Power Cup
16 July 2012
Supporting the development of young talent
El Comercio Seedbed Maltin Power Cup soccer championship returns
- It will be held in September
- The registration is available at www.blog.elcomercio.pe/semillero from July 12th to August 14th
- El Comercio Seedbed Maltin Power Cup will take place in Lima and Chiclayo
Lima, July 11th, 2012 - Starting September 1st and for a period of four weeks, the El Comercio Seedbed - Maltin Power Cup will be held in the cities of Lima and Chiclayo. Up to 128 teams in Lima and 8 teams in Chiclayo will be participating. This championship seeks to support the development of outstanding young talent in this competition.
El Comercio newspaper and the Backus Foundation have joined in this effort since they share the same goal: To contribute to youth development through the promotion of values and sports training.
Mr. Francisco Miró Quesada, Editor of El Comercio, mentioned that the newspaper has encouraged the programme Seedbed for 26 years because not only it is a singular competition but because of its commitment to the nation. We are convinced that we can direct the community, youth in particular, to learn through sports how to practise civic duties and rights, to comply with these values and help the stability of the family unit.
Also, as Mrs. Malena Morales Valentín, Executive Director of Backus Foundation expressed, "Backus is an enterprise that has always been committed to Peruvian sports. We seek to develop strategic alliances with different social actors to promote healthful lifestyles through the promotion of sports, which facilitates personal interaction and socialization as well as the development of values from an early age."
In addition to the championship, the Backus Foundation will invite parents as well as trainers of registered teams to participate in a lecture delivered by specialists. This will make it possible for them to learn some of the tools to promote the development of social skills in youth, to strengthen the athletes' self-esteem and confidence and to teach them to evaluate risk situations and make informed and appropriate decisions.
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Yohana Medina
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This analysis completely overlooks the fact that scammers want to appear to be witless and unsophisticated, thereby making the story more plausible and themselves seen as an easy mark for the unscrupulous.
Almost every inbox has been plagued by them: Emails offering a chance at a share of millions of dollars (or pounds or euros). Someone works at a Department of Finance or Department of Oil or is terminally ill or for some other reason needs to shift a large chunk of money out of their country. And they need your help.
Just shoot through an email with a few personal details, and you'll end up with 5 per cent (or 10 per cent or 15) of some fabulous quantity of money. But then the transaction hits a hitch — you're going to need to send through a small amount of money to help facilitate the transfer. Nothing big and, after all, soon you'll have enough money to fill a swimming pool, and you'll finally be rid of the long hours and low pay of your day job (possibly as a poverty-stricken overworked tech writer). Then they need another small amount. Then a larger amount.
These email scams are typically dubbed 'Nigerian scams' or '419 scams' after a section in Nigeria's criminal code, but are more accurately known as 'advance fee fraud'. And, unfortunately for the country, it's these scams that many people probably think of when they hear Nigeria's name. There is a lot more variety in the scams in these days — you can help out someone trying to shift money out of Libya in the wake of Gaddafi's overthrow, for example — but my inbox still manages to attract a fair share of promises of West African wealth.
And, hard as it might be for a lot of people to believe, these scams can be fantastically successful. Two years ago a Nigerian man received a 12-year jail sentence after scamming US$1.3 million from victims.
Here's a small sample from one I received recently (though this time it's Malaysia, not an African nation):
I am Mr.Davies Abraham the director of Accounts & auditing dept (CIMB Bank Group Malaysia) With due respect, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be beneficial to both of us and our family. At the bank's last accounts/auditing evaluations, my staffs came across an old account which was being maintained by a foreign client who we learn was among the deceased passengers of motor accident on (November 2003) the deceased was unable to run this account since his death.
The account has remained dormant without the knowledge of his family since it was put in a safe deposit account in the bank for future investment by the client and we have tried to contact the details of the next of the kin but our effort is in vain so CIMB Bank gathered that every body in the family died in the Accident.
The question many people have asked themselves after receiving an email like this is: Who would fall for this crap? The persistence of the scam also raises another question: Can't people come up with better worded, more creative forms of attack? Why, given the scam is relatively well known these days, would a scammer still purport from Nigeria or from another West African nation given the association of advance free fraud with the region?
In retrospect the answer to this question is obvious. According to Cormac Herley, principal researcher at Microsoft Research's Machine Learning Department, it's because scammers aren't necessarily interested in seeming believable: They are looking for the most gullible victims they can find, to maximise return on their effort.
A (maths heavy) paper produced by Herley, aptly titled Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? (PDF), argues: "In deciding who to attack true positives are targets successfully attacked, while false positives are those that are attacked but yield nothing.
"This allows us to view the attacker's problem as a binary classification. The most profitable strategy requires accurately distinguishing viable from non-viable users, and balancing the relative costs of true and false positives…
"Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor."
Herley notes that, contrary to what some people think, an advance fee scam is not free for the fraudster. "[E]ach respondent to a Nigerian 419 email requires a large amount of interaction, as does the Facebook 'stuck in London scam.'"
The cost of sending an email may be close to zero, but "emptying bank accounts requires recruiting and managing mules".
"The endgame of many attacks require per-target effort. Thus when cost is non-zero each potential target represents an investment decision to an attacker. He invests effort in the hopes of payoff, but this decision is never flawless."
He concludes: "[I]f the goal is to maximize response to the email campaign it would seem that mentioning 'Nigeria' (a country that to many has become synonymous with scams) is counter-productive. One could hardly choose a worse place to claim to be from if the goal is to lure the unwary into email communication…
"Since gullibility is unobservable, the best strategy is to get those who possess this quality to self-identify. An email with tales of fabulous amounts of money and West African corruption will strike all but the most gullible as bizarre. It will be recognized and ignored by anyone who has been using the Internet long enough to have seen it several times. It will be figured out by anyone savvy enough to use a search engine and follow up on the auto-complete suggestions [of search engines]. It won't be pursued by anyone who consults sensible family or fiends, or who reads any of the advice banks and money transfer agencies make available. Those who remain are the scammers ideal targets. They represent a tiny subset of the overall population."
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This analysis completely overlooks the fact that scammers want to appear to be witless and unsophisticated, thereby making the story more plausible and themselves seen as an easy mark for the unscrupulous.
Actually, this article attempts to answer a different question:"Why are Nigerian scams successful." The answer to the original question is easily understood when we realize that a lot of these scamemrs are not that educated or intellectually sophisticated to entertain the rigors of "true positives" and "false positives" etc.
If a stupid man stands on the street corners and tells every woman passing in a crude manner he wants to sleep with her, eventually he will run into one who obliges him.
Likewise, they probably say they are from Nigeria because some of them are too stupid to realize it should not work.... Keep in mind that the individuals who do these things represent a very very small percentage of the population. Sort of like the red necks from the south sending hate mail to Africa and Africans concluding that American are racist as a result. I am Nigerian!
The best part is section 4.2, which describes a fairly simple counter-attack.
Someone needs to write an Eliza-like script that automatically responds to messages like this, goading on the scammer. Then hook it up to thousands of dummy entries in your /etc/aliases file, and invite them into your tar pit. And then get all of your friends to do the same.
As unproductive results overwhelm real ones, you eventually (quickly, per this paper) make it unprofitable.
Great article. As a mathematician, this makes total sense. I have always wondered why they use poor grammar, plus they sound like they're written with a thesaurus in one hand. After the initial response, it takes a lot of interaction to get the victim to trust you enough to scam them. To weed out those who can't be scammed would be a time saver.
PS I use these letters in my class to teach grammar and explain that it's a red flag with scams.
It is also important to mention that scammers will eventually ask you to send money to NIGERIA.... Therefore, coming forward with the future destination of your Western Union money transfer kinda makes sense... For them, at least.
I just read the whole study and logged on to make the same point Bob made. I'm stunned that it clearly never occurred to the researchers that the scammers might be intentionally acting stupid, not in order to ensure that only the dumbest people respond to the e-mail, as claimed in the conclusion (which would make no sense whatsoever -- ask yourself for a moment whether the stupidest 2% of people in the city where you live happen to have US $10,000 in cash to send to a stranger by Western Union), but rather in order to entice the other (presumably smarter and wealthier) group of people above them who respond in the belief that they can easily take advantage of a person whom they imagine to be a gullible Nigerian moron with five million dollars.
P.S. to SweetPete: I think if you do a bit of follow-up research on that theory of yours, you will quickly see that almost none of the scammers are actually Nigerian, nor are they writing to you from the Nigerian city they claim they're writing from.
PPS. Or maybe you're just a very shrewd investor, Pete. Do you happen to have an e-mail address where I can send you some confidential investment tips? My partners and I are always looking for shrewd investors for our most promising projects. For example, we have a mine in Antarctica that looks really promising - we just don't have the capital. (And yes, you're right, Pete, this does mean that I must be writing this message from Antarctica right now. Nobody's going to put one over on you, bro.)
truth is anyone can claim to be from africa.as long as you are gullible with as low as $10,you are the real target!
In the seminars I have attended hosted by the Secret Service, Nigeria WAS and IS the source of most of these scams. The country is corrupt from top to bottom. How do you explain a country so rich in oil wealth, where the majority of the citizens are dirt poor? According to the Secret Service instructors, when oil prices spike, wire transfers of $ by the corrupt rulers to places like Switzerland increase in concert. A successful scammer buys his village a well or a leisure centre and becomes a hero. If you fall for one of these scams, you're stupid or dishonest. Can't fix stupid and if you're dishonest, you get what you deserve...
>ask yourself for a moment whether the stupidest 2% of people in the city where you live happen to have US $10,000 in cash to send to a stranger by Western Union)
Gullible and stupid are not necessarily the same. Imagine a 90 year-old-person, who was very successful in their career, but now has some marbles rolling around upstairs, and they see this email.
These work. When my neighbor dired shortly after his wife and her son inhearanted the house the son told me that the husband had fallen for this scam TWICE!
He sent them $5000 the first time and when he tried again the FBI called on him and tried to explain to him about sending money to Africa and the scam. (The bank must have called them when he tried to send the money a second time.)
He was just a normal retired neighbor who liked to talk about going up to Reno of the Bay Area to gamble.
People comment as if there is only ONE reason why these "Nigeria"-labeled scams persist.
The scammers range from the stupid and desperate to the highly sophisticated.
So it could be simple stupidity, sheer desperation, or more sophisticated calculation that sustains the behavior.
Anyway, nice to know that the folks at MSFT Research are keeping really busy!
I get a kick out of replying to these. I always point out how illiterate they are, and I point out that if they even made it a little believable they might get someone to fall for there scam.
The other day I replied to "all" on one of these scams and pointed out that with his talents he would not even be able to get a job at McDonalds . After about 1000 reply's from the other recipients that were on the original email, which they were all calling this guy a moron, he wrote back to me apologizing for the email he sent, and for trying to scam people out of there money. In the email he was the president of the National bank of Nigeria. His Yahoo account was also a Nigerian account.
You must be writing, not from Antarctica but from Heaven, since you're perfect.
Huh, I just figured it was white guilt.
@Pete (#5) and @LeahF (#6)
I agree witih Pete. If the scammer said they were from France, but then asked for money to be wired to Nigeria, it would be another red-flag obstacle to overcome.
So LeahF, have you done any research to find out that these Nigerian scammers want you to send money to Bulgaria?
PS - another reason the scammers choose Nigeria (or some other 3rd world country) is that it almost seems possible that someone is trying to get money out of that country. Whereas, why would some German person/bank be trying to pull off this illegal transfer (and hope to get away with it)?
I never get these emails but I would like to string a few along just for fun, So I created an email account for this purpose. Since most of the programmes that trawl the net looking for email adresses are automated I will post the email address here and see how long it takes for the first to arrive !
Lot of "academics" to simply say what was said more colorfully so long ago: people rob banks because that's where the money is. This paper earns a Ph.D in confirming the "obvious."
Don't send money in advance to a stranger except a well-established company like McDonald's.
Don't expect easy money, that's to say, money that you didn't earn. You'll outsmart yourself.
I almost fell for it twice. The first time was a document saying
Coca-Cola giving out prizes. But when he asked for money in advance, I got suspicious.
The second time, a document saying Standard Chartered Bank
had on deposit $1 million for me. Again, the request for advanced money turned me off.
For a detailed description by a Tax Court of Canada judge of a Calgary lawyer falling for this scam, read the case of Ruff v. The Queen: http://canlii.ca/t/fqw8t
It's quite a story. The lawyer advanced $369,119, which of course disappeared. The Tax Court disallowed his claim for this amount as business expenses from his law practice, on the basis that the expenses were unreasonable.
(The funds were alleged to be in the Ivory Coast, not Nigeria)
David M Sherman, Tax Lawyer & Author
There's a sucker born every minute. Scams propagate because of human stupidity and ignorance. They've always been around and always will be.
Anyone ever entered a competition by SMS?
Paid a dollar upfront (via your phone bill) to win big.
Nigerians just want the same chanceto take your money as the lottery companies.
I agree with Lloyd. Here in Brooklyn, we have a syaing "If you throw enogh s**t against a wall, some of it will stick." True positives, false positives ? So overanalyzed. Bottom line is greed and gullibility
Lloyd is not correct in fact he's the perfect example of whats wrong with security today. You see these emails and scams and your brain automaticly filters them out becuase reason tells you to.
You also downplay the problem becuase your reason tells you that anyone dumb enough to fall for it gets what they deserve. And the complancency of poeple like you is what enables these intelligent and dedicated scammers to continue targeting and exploiting poeple who dont have the natural instinct to be skeptical.
Its a natural law when selecting your prey. Nevermind the fat ones, just go for slow ones. But in your need to feel superior you seem to be suggesting that these scammers are hauling in millions of dollars per year...by accident?
I am a Nigerian. I have lived with scammers for years. They always believe 'mugu' will respond. Mugu is the pidgin English word for FOOL. Every person ever scammed was a greedy fool. Stop blaming the hardworking scammers. I don't like the scams, the scammers or the scammed especially if it is in the loser's quest for quick wealth.
Please forget about all the analysis.
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If you go to their Senate: No Toss Ups page, the toss ups break 2:1 for Republicans, which gives us a 49 seat caucus after the election. The four that break Republican are Illinois, Nevada, Colorado and Pennsylvania. The two that look like they could break Democratic are West Virginia and Washington, and while I'd like to see the Dems lose there, I could probably live with Manchin in the senate, as he's far to the right of most Democrats (and a number of Republicans) and wouldn't be an embarrassment to either party. And, if Obama continues to alienate people, he's a good probability to cross the aisle.
Nevada will definitely go Republican, but I doubt IL and CO will too. You're asking a lot of states which are very deeply entrenched.
Its hard to see WI flipping too, but that race is closer than anybody anticipated.
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I hope you like my sweet potato bread recipe as much as I do. The combination of tangy pineapple with this spicy sweet loaf is delicious! —Diane Goss, Chester, Virginia
- 1-3/4 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, well drained
- In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. In a small bowl, combine the eggs, potatoes, oil and water. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Transfer to a greased 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.
- In a small bowl, combine butter and pineapple. Serve with bread. Yield: 1 loaf (16 slices) and 1 cup butter.
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This has become a year round favorite! Wonderful flavor and the pineapple butter makes it a special occasion!
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This bread was very moist! I did make a couple of changes. I only used 1 cup of sugar and added some extra sweet potato that I had left over (1/2 cup more). I took this bread to a gathering and couldn't even sit down before I was asked about the recipe. It was gone pretty fast for someone coming late to the gathering. Have already made this 3 other times. It's a winner.
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2012
Very good bread, though I'm dubious about the pineapple butter and didn't make it--sounds too sweet to me
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A keeper. Everybody loves when I make this
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